When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team. When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
Everybody hears, but few listen.
The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.
Offense is not equal opportunity
Practice structure determines success.
Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Perform drills that force your players to think
When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices
Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play
I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.
A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against
